D3: Lower Division Service Learning

Students shall take no more than four lower-division courses with the same subject prefix as their major to fulfill their general education requirements.

All lower division service learning courses will integrate and fulfill both the Lower Division SL Outcomes and the outcomes from one of the A-E GE areas. 

Approved Courses

  • BUS 201S: Macro Econ & Comm (6 units)
    Approved from Fall 2012

  • CHHS 260S: Social Justice & Hlth (6 units)
    Approved from Spring 2013

  • ENSTU 212S: Ethics, Equity & Envir SL (6 units)
    Approved from Fall 2012

  • ENSTU 298S: Disease and the Community (6 units)
    Approved from Fall 2012

  • GS 280S: Globalize This! (6 units)
    Approved from Spring 2013

  • HCOM 211S: Reading Writing Crit Thkg SL (6 units)
    Approved from Spring 2013

  • SL 200S: Power Culture Equity&Service (6 units)
    Approved from Fall 2012

  • SL 230S: Building Community: the Arts (6 units)
    Approved from Fall 2012

  • SL 250S: Create Healthy Communities (6 units)
    Approved from Fall 2012

CSU General Education Alignment

  • Lower Division Service Learning: CSU GE Area D3

Outcomes

  1. Self and Social Awareness
    Students develop an understanding of the social, cultural and civic aspects of their personal identities.
  • Define and describe the concepts of individual social and cultural group identities and the concepts of social privilege and marginalization.
  • Demonstrate critical self-reflection of their own assumptions, values, and stereotypes, and recognize the relative privilege and marginalization of their identities.

2.  Service and Social Responsibility
Students develop an understanding of social responsibility and the connections between short-term community service and greater long-term societal well being.

  • Articulate the relationship between individual, group, community and societal well being.
  • Identify individual actions that contribute to short-term well being and/or greater long-term societal well being.

3.  Community & Social Justice
Students develop an understanding of how the actions of individuals and social systems foster both equity and inequity in communities and society.

  • Explore the demographics, socio-cultural dynamics and assets of a specific local community through a social justice framework.
  • Examine a community issue(s) in the context of systemic inequity, discrimination and social injustice.

4.  Multicultural Community Building/Civic Engagement
Students learn from and work responsively and inclusively with diverse individuals, groups and organizations to build more just, equitable, and sustainable communities.

  • Demonstrate intercultural communication skills, reciprocity and responsiveness in service work with community.
  • Enter, participate in, and exit a community in ways that are sensitive to systemic injustice.
  • Identify and develop personal and institutional strategies, policies and practices that work towards creating greater equity and social justice in communities.